# Please do not post complete lyrics to songs!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 13, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944 "2002-06-13T23:03:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/1 "2002-06-13T23:03:16Z")
Since I’ve just had to edit a post containing the complete lyrics to a song, let me restate our policy on posting complete lyrics.
The policy is : don’t do it.
It is okay to post a small snippet of the lyrics and include a link to another site which contains the complete text. But posting complete lyrics verbatim puts us in danger of violating copyright laws.
Thanks for your co-operation.
- Eutychus -
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/2 "2002-06-14T03:20:02Z")
Oh Euty, what a pity, you don’t understand
You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand
Oh Euty, you’re so pretty, can’t you understand
It’s guys like you, Euty
Ooh what you do Euty, do Euty
Don’t break my heart, Euty
Oh Euty you’re so fine. You’re so fine you blow my mind.
Hey Euty!
Hey Euty!
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### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/3 "2002-06-14T03:44:48Z")
You can get anything you want at Euty’s restaurant
You can get anything you want at Euty’s restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Euty’s restaurant.
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/4 "2002-06-14T11:35:43Z")
But say I wanted to discuss the lyrics to “Rock and Roll Part 2”, could I only quote
> [@](#):
>
> H…
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/5 "2002-06-14T11:35:52Z")
I am the guilty party.
Sorry. I didn’t know. ☹
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### Author:  [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/6 "2002-06-14T15:12:59Z")
Whatever Euty wants
Euty gets
And little man, little Euty wants you
Make up your mind to have no regrets
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you’re through
Euty always gets what he aims for
And your heart’n soul is what he came for
Whatever Euty wants
Euty gets,
Take off your coat
Don’t you know you can’t win?
You’re no exception to the rule,
He’s irresistible, you fool, give in!..Give in!..Give in!
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/7 "2002-06-14T22:39:50Z")
What if the song is in the…
(tune of Beethoven’s 5th, which is)
_Public domain!
Public domain!
Public domain, public domain, public domain!
Public domain, public domain, public domain!
Public domain!
Public domain!
Pu-hu-bu-lic! Do! Maiiiiiin!_
(Yeah, I know we hardly discuss songs copywritten before 1907 on this board, but what the heck-it makes a good song parody!)
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### Author:  [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/8 "2002-06-15T02:33:43Z")
_ **One Step Beyond!!!** _
Will hopefully not get me banned . . .
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/9 "2002-06-15T18:25:38Z")
**The Euty posts tonight**
_Chorus_ : A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh
A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh
A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh A wima-weh
A-wima-weh A-wima weh A-wima-weh A-wima-weh
On the Straight Dope, the savvy Straight Dope
The Euty posts tonight
On the Straight Dope, the savvy Straight Dope
The Euty posts tonight
_Chorus_
In the Forum, the peaceful Forum
The Euty posts tonight
In the Forum, the peaceful Forum
The Euty posts tonight
_Chorus_
Wait, my Doper, don’t blame the hamsters
The Euty posts tonight
Wait, my Doper, don’t blame the hamsters
The Euty posts tonight
_Chorus finale_
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/10 "2002-06-16T23:56:03Z")
**JDeMobray**
You should be in the clear. You forgot the introduction:
Hey you! Don’t watch that! Watch this!..
But let’s try living dangerously.
:: widdershins looks around to make sure Euty isn’t watching::
\*\* Tequila!\*\*
::d&r::
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/11 "2002-06-17T06:05:04Z")
Ooh-ahahahaha, W\*peout.
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/12 "2002-06-18T15:08:02Z")
If we type Ice, Ice Baby, are we ripping off Vanilla Ice or Freddie Mercury?
(Or will we be banned for simply having the bad taste to know the words to Ice Ice Baby?)
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/13 "2002-06-18T21:36:50Z")
There are song lyrics within, there are song lyrics without
Eutychus is trying to catch the deluge in a paper cup
Euty’s battles are ahead, he has not lost many batlles
And I’ll never see the end of the road while we travel with him
There’s a hole in the server
and some of these posts are bringing suspicion
Euty’s got the proof.
Hey now, hey now, Euty dreams that it’s over
Hey now, hey now, Euty won’t let the trolls win
Eutychus is walking again, to the beat of a drum,
To the next Dopefest, to the door into our heads
Hey now, hey now, Euty won’t let trolls win
Euty won’t ever let them win ,hey now, heyy noow.
Cheers, Eutychus, Slainte!
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/14 "2002-06-18T23:24:17Z")
So…
what is the status of a link to site which violates copyright?
like (maybe - who knows if the site has legal rights?) this one:
[http://members.tripod.com/~Synergy\_2/lyrics/thedeck.html](http://members.tripod.com/~Synergy_2/lyrics/thedeck.html)
(DRECK LIVES!)
also: see ‘educational’ exception to copyright law…
“You can’t alway post what you want,
You can’t alway post what you want…”
Mamas do’t let your babies grow up to be posters…
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### Author:  [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/15 "2002-06-19T03:42:34Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Eutychus \*
> \*\*…
> It is okay to post a small snippet of the lyrics and include a link to another site which contains the complete text. But posting complete lyrics verbatim puts us in danger of violating copyright laws.
>
> Thanks for your co-operation.
>
> - Eutychus - \*\*
OK, how about including a few helpful links in this sticky?
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### Author:  [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/16 "2002-06-19T03:57:24Z")
Okay, I get it. I’ll post a snippet and then the next person to read the thread can post the next snippet and so on. Problem solved! 😃
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### Author:  [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/17 "2002-06-19T13:44:07Z")
Who can take a po-ost
Edit it with care
Fix the _^%)&_ coding
and re-post it with a flair
The Eutychus can
The Eutychus can
The Eutychus can cause he moderates with love
and make it all look good.
😃
Zev Steinhardt
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### Author:  [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/18 "2002-06-19T14:26:20Z")
Yo, VIP, Let’s kick it!
Euty Euty Baby, Euty Euty Baby
All right stop, Collaborate and listen
Euty’s is back with my brand new invention
Something he grabbed ahold of real tightly
Edits the post both daily and nightly
Will he ever stop?
Hell no!
Turn off the board, he’ll still go
To the extreme he rocks a forum like a vandal
Quote him some lyrics and he’ll burn you like a candle.
Post, Bum rush the speaker that booms
He’s killing your post like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when you quote a dope melody
Anything less than a snippet is a felony
Love it or leave it, You better give way
You better quote snippets, The kid don’t play
If there was a problem, Yo, he’ll solve it
Checking out the quote so he can dissolve it
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Now that the forum is jumping
With the lyics kicked in, Euty is pumpin’
Quick to the point, to the point no faking
He’s chopping up lyrics like a pound of bacon
Burning them if they’re not quick and nimble
You can’t quote Prince cause you can’t make the symbol
Give just a sec whole he pops a pimple
He’s on a roll and it’s time to go solo
Rollin’ with IE 5.0
With the hotkeys set down so so the posts can go
The girlies on standby, Posting just to say Hi
Did he stop? No – I he just browsed by
Kept on pursuing to the next post
He busted a newbie and he’s making sure that he’s toast
The thread is dead
Yo – so I continued to IMHO not down from plain old GQ
Girls posting links wearing less than bikinis
Euty don’t care he drives a Lamborghini
Jealous 'cause I know the words to the song
Cecil with a lawbook and Euty with a bong
Reading for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill cause thier lyric got called
Enya lyrics ranged out like a bell
I posted Beatles – And I’m starting to smell
My computer is heating up real fast
Jumped on my laptop, slammed on the gas
Doper to Dopr the forum is packed
I’m posting tons of lyrics like a third rate hack
Zotti on the scene, You know what I mean
He passed me up, confronted all the dope fiends
If there is a problem, Euty will solve it
Checking out the quote so he can dissolve it
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Take heed, 'cause I’m a lyrical poet
Welby1’s on the scene just in case you didn’t know it
I’m down, I steal from lost and found
I’m overweight and my head is round
And my post’s like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed, This is a hell of a concept
I make it hype and you want to step with this
Euty plays on the fade, slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast, Other Dopers say, “damn”
If your posts were drug, He’d sell em by the gram
Keeps his composure when the Dopers get loose
Magnetized by Euty while he kicks his juice
If there is a problem, Euty will solve it
Checking out the quote so he can dissolve it
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Euty Euty Baby Vanilla, Euty Euty Baby Vanilla
Yo man – Let’s get out of here! Word to your mother!
Euty Euty Baby Too cold, Euty Euty Baby Too cold Too cold
Euty Euty Baby Too cold Too cold, Euty Euty Baby Too cold Too cold
he’ll go
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### Author:  [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/19 "2002-06-19T14:41:21Z")
As I walk through the Cafe’ Society of death
I take a look at my posts and realize there’s nothing left
coz I’ve been posting the lyrics so long, that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain’t never quote a man that didn’t deserve it
me be quoting some damn punk you know that’s unheard of
but I better watch how I’m talking, and where I’m walking
or me and my posts might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i gotta, Eut
As I post I see myself in the forum smoke, fool
I’m the kinda Doper the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, posting lyrics in the monitor light
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
Look at the situation, they got him facin’
He can’t live a normal life, He was raised by the state
so he gotta be down with the SD team
too much lyics quoting dopers got him chasing dreams
He’s an educated fool with copyrights on his mind
got a mouse in his hand and a gleam in his eye
He’s a Doped out gangsta post editin’ banger
and Cecil is down so don’t arouse his anger, fool
Banning ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away,
I’m posting lyrics, do or die, what can I say
It’s 23 posts, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don’t know
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one’s we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
Power and the posting, posting and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody’s posting, but half of them ain’t looking
what’s going on in Opinion, and I don’t know what’s tickin’
they say to use snippets, but nobody’s here to teach me
if I can’t understand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can’t, I guess they won’t
I guess they front, that’s why I know my posts are out of luck, fool
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
spending most our lives, living in the Euty’s paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one’s we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one’s we hurt, are you and me
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-post-complete-lyrics-to-songs/113944/20 "2002-06-19T20:35:54Z")
Normally I’d put a stop to something like this … 😃
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